Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.